Nigerians demonstrated their disdain for same-sex relationships last week when an angry mob almost lynched seven suspected homosexuals who were brought for trial before Sharia Court 4 in Anguwan Jaki, Bauchi State.

The Federal Ministry of Environment has developed a draft action plan for the phasing out of light weight non-biodegradable plastics in the country, a top official of the ministry, said, yesterday.

Senator Olasunkanmi Akinlabi, a former Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a Senator representing Osun West Senatorial District between 2003 and 2007 is taking a shot in this year governorship race in Osun State on the platform of Peoples’ Democratic Party. He spoke with our Osun State correspondent Gbenga Olarinoye on so many issues.

All Progressives Congress, APC, members in the House of Representatives put their threat to shut the affairs of the Federal Government in higher gear when they vowed to block funding for the Nigeria Police and all capital projects in the 2014 Appropriation Bill.

Two good heads are better than one. This popular adage buttresses the fact that a conglomeration of truly intellectual minds is sure to bring about more results than the idea of one single individual.

Syl Cheney-Coker is one of Sierra Leone’s most renowned poets, novelist, and journalist who has a global sense of literary history. Educated at the Universities of Oregon and Wisconsin, and a former visiting writer at the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa, he has through his write ups, introduced styles and techniques from French and Latin American literature to Sierra Leone.

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, was, yesterday, ordered by Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and the National Oil Spill Response and Emergency Agency, NOSREA, to pay a total of $11.5 billion, about N1.84 trillion, as fines and compensation for the 2011 Bonga oil spill incident.

A 60-year-old man simply identified as Akinduro is cooling his heels in police net for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old student of May Flower School, Ikenne, Ogun State.
Vanguard gathered that the girl (names withheld) was put in the custody of the suspect who runs a private hostel in the town.

WOMEN Arise for Change Initiative, a human rights group, led by its President, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, on December 23, 2013, led a peaceful protest to the Lagos State House of Assembly and submitted a petition on the alleged inhuman assault on two women in a market in Ejigbo, a Lagos surburb, and demanded for an immediate investigation by the lawmakers inorder to ensure justice was done by punishing the perpetrators.

Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie has lamented the dearth of admission spaces for the over one million students jostling for university education every year. He noted that although we have 50 private universities which complement the 79 public universities, admission spaces are still inadequate.